Dissent Tackles GOP Judicial Wars and Court Capture
A review of Jackie Calmes's Dissent analyzes how the Republican push to shape the courts has become a prolonged partisan battle. It traces Trump nominees creating a 6 to 3 conservative majority, the use of political weaponization, and the shifts in Senate tactics from Bork to Barrett.
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Rett Kavanaugh
Supreme Court
New York Times
Kavanaugh
Christine Blasey Ford
Deborah Ramirez
Los Angeles Times
Jackie Calmes
Washington
Ruth Marcus
Washington Post
Carl Hulse
Calmes
Donald Trump
Anthony Kennedy
Ford
Ramirez
Yale
Republi
Michael Avenatti
Julie Swetnick
Anita Hill
Clarence Thomas
Senate
White House
Mitch McConnell
Senate Judiciary Committee
Chuck Grassley
Donald McGahn
FBI
Bork
Thomas
Clinton
Obama
David Souter
Miguel Estrada
D.C
Sonia Sotomayor
Barack Obama
Stephen Breyer
Antiman A Hybrid Memoir Challenges Labels and Lineage
Rajiv Mohabir’s memoir Antiman fuses poetry and prose to trace a queer coming of age within Indo Guyanese heritage. It renounces genre, delving into caste, diaspora, and anti colonial critique while chronicling family rejection and a search for belonging amidst songs and memory.
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Rajiv Mohabir
Mohabir
India
Aji
Mahabir
The Temple House Vanishing evokes gothic dread at a private girls school
Donohue’s debut follows Louisa and Victoria at Temple House a Catholic boarding school where art and philosophy lessons mix with troubling boundaries as Mr Lavelle mentors then probes the students. When Lavelle and Louisa vanish the investigation recalls a 25 year old mystery told through journalist and Louisa’s alternating voices.
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Phaedrus
Abelard
Heloise
Rachel Donohue
Temple House
Donahue
Louisa
Lavelle
Victoria
Mr. Lavelle
Donohue
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